RAG & Agents
Cross-Encoder Reranking
Scoring (query, document) pairs jointly with full attention between them, applied to the top 20–100 candidates.
Why interviewers ask about it
Hybrid search improves recall; reranking improves precision at the top. Diagnose recall@50 first - if it is low, no reranker can help.
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